France evolving to become one of the world’s best after stunning 2016

Paul Pogba pays homage to Conor McGregor's walk and David Alaba falls victim to Thiago's nutmeg in The Sweeper.

Deschamps has overseen an evolution in the France team.
International football waved goodbye to 2016 this week and, depending on where you are from, your country may have had a shocking year (like Netherlands), a disappointing one (like England or Belgium), or a great one above all expectations (like Iceland and Wales for example.)
For France, it was almost a perfect one. Les Bleus only lost one of their 16 matches this calendar year. The bad news was that it was the one they had to win: the European Championship final against Portugal in Paris.
As so…